Air Guitar Record Broken in New York
The world records have been rewritten once again after the largest air guitar ensemble record was broken just one month after it had been set.
The event took place after the Wednesday matinee performance of the musical, Rock of Ages, at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre in New York City. Overall 810 members of the cast, crew and audience took part in the record while rocking out to ‘Don’t Stop Believin’ by Journey for 2 minutes and 34 seconds using their air guitars. To count the crowd and to make sure everyone was in tune, a Guinness World Record Official watched over the event. US National Air Guitar champion, William Ocean, lead the 810 strong air guitar playing crowd through the song.
The lead man, William Ocean, had this to say: “As a professional air guitar player, I can definitely say without a doubt that Broadway rocks.”
This record of 810 air guitar players beat the record that was set just a month ago when at the 2009 Download Festival where their air guitar ensemble only featured 440 members rocking out to Ace of Spades by Motorhead.
With the 2009 Download Festival only managing a 440 people ensemble, this new record of 810 people won’t be easy to beat. However, if the music lovers at the 2009 Glastonbury Festival had attempted the record, the crowd of 190,000 people would have had no problem.
Something that would have been more impressive, in my eyes, would have been an ensemble of classical guitar players. As long as everyone was playing in time, plus the same thing, it would certainly seem more of an achievement to have hundreds of classical guitars playing rather than air guitars. Grand pianos could be pretty impressive as well, however it would take up a lot of space.